04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... own satellite hardware and procure a separate launch.” Designed for launch on Electron, as well as other launch vehicles, ‘First Light’ paves the way for future, high-energy variations of Photon designed for lunar and interplanetary missions...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
... installed receivers observations were made of several objects, this is called ‘First Light’ and basically means the first light of an object captured with the receivers. The objects first studied included a dusty red supergiant star nearing the end...
14 April 2016
All systems go as ExoMars sends back its first image
... University of Bern in Switzerland, and camera principal investigator. “Although it was not designed to look at faint stars, these first images are very reassuring. Everything points to us being able to get good data at Mars.” So far, TGO and...
August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
... explore spatial complexities that yield marvellous surprises. It often carries me in directions I cannot anticipate. ’First Light’ by Jeannie Motherwell. I like to think of each painting as an event or an occurrence; that is, an action that emerges...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... will have a 39-metre main mirror and will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world. First light is targeted for 2025. As an example, let’s restrict our attention to the measurement of a single type of biosignature; in this case...
10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
... Telescope and on Cerro Armazones, close to Paranal, ESO is building the 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). At its first light in 2024 the ELT will become “the world’s biggest eye on the sky” and it will be able to provide...
